potent potables
Alcoholic beverages, collectively
Potent potables are alcoholic beverages—drinks with significant alcohol content.
The phrase gained wide recognition as a category on the television quiz show *Jeopardy!*, where it appears regularly.
Outside that context, the expression sounds deliberately formal or humorous: Care for a potent potable?
- rumMolasses-based liquor
- whiskeyOak-aged grain spirit
- Irish whiskeyGrain spirit from Ireland
- single maltUnblended Scotch whisky
- vodkaClear distilled spirit
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- Jeopardy!Alex Trebek, Ken Jennings, Daily Double, Final Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy
alcoholic content
potent potablessoft drinks
Carbonated nonalcoholic beverages
non-alcoholic beverages · soda · water · juice · mocktails
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